Month: August 2024

Five people were named in a whopping 625-count indictment unsealed on July 31 for their alleged roles in a gun trafficking operation that sold dozens of ghost guns, assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in Queens. An investigation led by Attorney General Letitia James’ Organized Crime Task Force (OCTF) recovered 86 firearms – including 55 ghost guns and 25 assault weapons – along with over 90 high-capacity […]

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is supporting the healthcare response to affected Caribbean countries following Hurricane Beryl’s devastating onslaught last month. Beryl, the earliest recorded Category 5 hurricane in the North Atlantic, struck the eastern Caribbean on July 1 as a high-end Category 4 storm; PAHO noted it brought significant destruction, particularly to the islands of Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.  Beryl directly affected over 80,000 people […]

You can kick a ball harder than any kid you know. You just haul your leg back, point your toe, and let go! You’re also good at smashing a ball, swimming, running, jumping, it’s all fun. Like you, lots of kids love sports, including the Olympics. And guess what? As in the book “Kid Olympians: Summer” by Robin Stevenson, illustrated by Allison Steinfeld, those Olympians were once kids, too. Take, […]

Award-winning band leader Maxine Magdeleno is fired up to celebrate nine years of masquerading on Eastern Parkway when Suga Candy Mas takes over the 57th West Indian American Day Carnival parade on Sept. 2. The band will depict The Seven Deadly Sins.  Magdeleno, who traces her roots to Belize, and whose dream it was from age nine, to become a band leader, told Caribbean Life on Aug. 3 that she […]

All was good and pleasant—or “irie” as the Jamaicans say—at Queens Borough Hall in Kew Gardens on Thursday, Aug. 1. Dozens of residents dressed in green, black and gold—the colors of the Jamaican flag—gathered in the Helen Marshall Cultural Center to celebrate Jamaica’s Emancipation Day and Jamaican Independence Day, which falls on Aug. 6.  Guests dined on a buffet of Jamaican cuisine, including curry chicken, jerk chicken and rice and […]

Frustrated by the slow place of progress and the reluctance of the United Kingdom to engage the region on formal talks on reparations, Caribbean leaders say they will do all they can to confront Britain and bring them to the table to discuss the issue of the trans Atlantic slave trade and Britain’s enduring responsibilities. Speaking in Port of Spain, Trinidad’s capital, during annual slavery emancipation celebrations this week, Prime […]

New York Police Department (NYPD) First Deputy Commissioner Tania Kinsella, who considers herself “half-Jamaican” and “half-Guyanese”, says she is mentoring a group of 29 New York City high school girls as they prepare to run their first-ever New York Road Runners (NYRR) Harlem 5K on Aug. 10. “As an ambassador for NYRR’s Run for the Future, I’m so honored to mentor the next generation and inspire them through the power […]

Two immigrant advocacy groups in New York on Thursday strongly condemned as “a devastating blow” to Caribbean and other immigrants and low-income families a Manhattan Supreme Court decision striking down a lawsuit that would have compelled the Eric Adams administration and the Department of Homeless Services (DHS) to implement the CityFHEPS housing voucher package that was passed in May 2023 by the City Council. The City Fighting Homelessness and Eviction […]